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Andrew Harris McGalliard (September 25, 1906 – May 26, 1978), better known as Bucky Harris, was an American professional
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...
player who played in the
Japanese Baseball League
was a professional baseball league in Japan which operated from 1936 to 1949, before reorganizing in 1950 as Nippon Professional Baseball.
The league's dominant team was Tokyo Kyojin (renamed the Yomiuri Giants in 1947), which won nine league c ...
from 1936 to 1938. While playing for the
Korakuen Eagles
The Yamato Baseball Club was a Japanese baseball team in the Japanese Baseball League (JBL). Based in Tokyo, the franchise was founded as the Korakuen Eagles before the 1937 season and was dissolved before the 1944 season.
Franchise history Ko ...
in the fall of 1937, he won the
Japanese Baseball League Most Valuable Player Award.
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American expatriate baseball players in Japan American expatriate baseball players in Japan have been a feature of the Japanese professional leagues since 1934. American expatriate players began to steadily find spots on Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) rosters in the 1960s. More than 600 A ...
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American expatriate baseball players in Japan
Baseball players from California
Sacramento Senators players
Wichita Aviators players
1906 births
1978 deaths
Nagoya Kinko players